Thryva’s Health eCircle (HeC) product is built specifically for delivering CCM services, enabling nurses and care coordinators to help patients during the 99% of the time they are not face-to-face with clinicians. It fosters rich patient-clinician interactions via a suite of cloud-based applications that include secure messaging, surveys, care team notes, patient-logged and auto-tracked data, reminders, alerts, educational materials and more. Thryva fuses patient home data with clinical data to provide a 360-degree view of an individual’s health. HeC supports an ongoing relationship between practice personnel and patients to motivate behavior change, satisfaction, and loyalty.

About Us

Management Team

Advisory Board

Mintu Turakhia

Chief Medical Advisor

Edward Yu

Clinical Advisor

Sharad Patel

Business Advisor

Himanshu Choksi

CEO, Co-Founder

Himanshu Choksi is a successful business leader with experience as an entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and corporate executive in the health, web, software, and communications sectors.
Throughout, he has brought useful and innovative solutions to market at organizations such as Intel, Bain & Co., Pacific Telesis, OneBox, Decide.com and via his investments for Pacifica Fund.
He believes our health system has much to celebrate and much to improve, and is deeply committed to helping address the latter. Himanshu is the holder of four U.S. patents.
He earned a B.Tech degree at the Indian Institute of Technology where he ranked 1st in his field of study, an MS in Materials Engineering at U.C. Berkeley, and an MBA at Stanford University where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar.

Rob Kalman

Vice President of Product Development, Co-Founder

Rob Kalman has spent his career leading teams developing leading-edge technologies and products.
At Optivision, he created and ran an R&D team developing innovative photonic packaging and switching solutions.
Optivision’s technology led to the spin-off of ONI Systems, which developed metro WDM transport systems and went public.
As a member of ONI’s founding team, Rob ran the photonic switching subsystems group.
He was on the founding team of Luminous Networks, where he held a variety of engineering and marketing management roles including VP of Hardware Engineering.
He led the development of Luminous’ converged packet/TDM transport systems over resilient packet rings (RPR). Luminous’ product portfolio was acquired by Scientific Atlanta/Cisco and Adtran.
He has a BS in EE from UC Berkeley, and MS and PhD from Stanford in EE, and six patents.

Gregory Travis

Director of Customer Engineering

Gregory Travis channels his passion for technology into solutions that improve the human condition. From start-ups to large enterprises, Greg has spent his career in executive management – building companies, designing solutions, and leading software teams in decision support, computer networking and security, travel, finance, and health care. He sees his calling as identifying a need and then creating technology to address it – not the other way around. And, acting as a self-described “corporate marriage counselor,” Greg delights in getting into the customer’s world, understanding their business, feeling their pain, and bringing relief. A health care industry expert, he presents and writes regularly on a variety of technology subjects and maintains a blog at www.mdalert.com. Greg has a BA in History from Indiana University, a passion for astrophotography, a pilot’s license, and homes in Portland, Oregon and Bloomington, Indiana.

Mintu Turakhia

Chief Medical Advisor

Mintu Turakhia, MD, MAS is a cardiac electrophysiologist, outcomes researcher, and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology at the Palo Alto VA Health Care System and is an Associate Investigator at the Center for Health Care Evaluation (CHCE). His research program aims to improve the treatment of heart rhythm disorders, by evaluating quality and variation of care, comparative and cost-effectiveness of therapies, and risk prediction. Dr. Turakhia is a Fellow of the American Heart Association, American College of Cardiology, and Heart Rhythm Society.

Edward Yu

Clinical Advisor

Edward Yu, MD is a family physician and Medical Director of Quality at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation. In the latter role, Dr. Yu is responsible for directing the overall clinical quality program at PAMF, including publicly reported metrics such as Pay-for Performance/Pay-for Value (P4P/P4V), CMS Group Practice Reporting Option Program (GPRO). He leads quality metric development for specialists and surgeons in ambulatory and hospital settings.

Sharad Patel

Advisor

Sharad Patel is a serial healthcare entrepreneur who has created transformative systems to manage health information of all kinds. In 1991, he built software to manage and track patient charts for very large multi-specialty practices in Northern California. Pyramid Health acquired his company, applying his technology to medical records nationally. Quadramed acquired Pyramid Health in 1998. Sharad co-founded ChartONE in 1999 to redefine chart management, and eobONE in 2005 to manage the last inch of healthcare claims and remittance. The company was merged into P4 Healthcare to become one of the largest oncology intelligence companies in the US; Cardinal Health acquired P4 in 2010. The aggregate value of healthcare companies Sharad has been a part of creating exceeds $600M.